Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (16 March 1927-26 March 2003) was a US Senator from New York (D) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 2001, succeeding James L. Buckley and preceding Hillary Clinton.

Biography
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1927, and he moved at a young age to New York City. He served in the US Navy before serving on the staff of Governor W. Averell Harriman and as a member of John F. Kennedy's administration. He served as Assistant Secretary of Labor under Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and he left the Johnson administration following his controversial 1965 sociology report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, which argued that the rise in black single-mother families was not caused by a lack of jobs, but by a destructive vein in ghetto culture. He went on to serve as Urban Affairs Advisor, Counselor to the President, ambassador to India, and ambassador to the United Nations under the Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He went on to serve in the US Senate from 1977 to 2001, and he was a strong critic of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy annd Bill Clinton's health care plan. He frequently broke with liberal positions, but opposed welfare reform in the 1990s and voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, NAFTA, and the Gulf War. He left office in 2001, and he died two years later.